{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://rokita.house.gov/press-release/rokita-votes-%E2%80%98no%E2%80%99-continuing-resolution", "ROKITA VOTES NO ON CONTINUING RESOLUTION", "2016-09-29", "2016", "2016-09", "Republican", "House", "IN", "Todd Rokita", "R000592", "rokita.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "ROKITA VOTES \u2018NO\u2019 ON CONTINUING RESOLUTION \nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Representative Todd Rokita released the following statement after the House passed legislation to fund the federal government through December.\u00a0 The bill passed the House by a vote of\u00a0342 to 85.\n\u201cGiven that our national debt is already over $19 trillion, I cannot support this bill because several of the provisions are not even paid-for, including Zika funding, and therefore add to the national debt.\u00a0 To solve this problem, I introduced a fully paid-for Zika bill, which was not considered. \u00a0This continuing resolution also fails to pay for disaster relief funds for the flooding that has devastated parts of the South. \u00a0I saw the need for these relief funds firsthand during a visit earlier this month, but without being paid-for, this bill will try to solve one problem only by enlarging another: our debt.\u201d\nThis funding bill passed today provides money to fund the government through December 9.\u00a0 Of the $1.1 billion in Zika funding research, only $400 million is paid for.\u00a0 On September 15, Rep. Rokita introduced a fully paid-for alternative, the Zero Impacted Kids in America (ZIKA) Act, which provided the requested level of virus research while remaining budget-neutral.\n\u00a0\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://rokita.house.gov/press-release/rokita-votes-%E2%80%98no%E2%80%99-continuing-resolution"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3725659810006618, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}